Information Revolution

Scientists today are more aware than ever before of the existence of what has been called the Information Revolution . At no other time in recent history has so much information become available from so many different traditional resources— including books, reviews, journals, and meetings—as well as personal computer-based materials such as data bases, alerting services, optical-disk-based information, and news media. 

Whereas gasoline is sold at large volume and low cost per pound, the ink for inkjet printers is sold in small volume at high cost per pound. It is a relatively new product that is riding on the crest of the information revolution, with great potential for growth and profit. Let us consider the marketing information needed in preparation for the introduction of a new product. 

A concluding historical lesson of the shaping of the Second Industrial Revolution in chemicals and pharmaceuticals is that, while the number of producers increased in pharmaceuticals, the number of mid-sized and even major producers was significantly reduced by merger and acquisition. In comparison, only a handful of enterprises created the Information Revolution. 

Thus, early in the twenty-first century, one of the two technology pioneers of the Second Industrial Revolution, the chemical industry, is no longer a high-tech industry. Pharmaceuticals, however, remains a dynamic high-tech industry as biotechnology is contributing to revolutionary changes on a scale comparable to those of the Second Industrial and Information Revolutions. 

On the advice of John von Neumann he called it entropy because, as von Neumann pointed out, the same function was already in use in statistical mechanics as the "Boltzmann H-function." Shannon s extraordinary paper appeared at the end of World War II concurrently with significant papers and books by Norbert Wiener on Cybernetics and by von Neumann on Games and Economics. Suddenly we were thrust into the information revolution and subjects such as decision making, risk, uncertainty, command and control, communication, feedback, and system-stability became popular topics of legitimate and important scientific inquiry. 

Job evaluation is not going to go away. It has emerged and evolved through the industrial, and now the informational, revolution. Unless everyone is paid the same, there will always be a need to establish and institutionalize a hierarchy of jobs in the organization. The process should, and will, continue to be improved upon. The use of computer software will dramatically simplify the administrative burdens of job evaluation. Furthermore, new technologies and processes will enable organizations to combine internal job-evaluation information with labor market data to strengthen the internal consistency-external competitiveness model discussed above. 

Information Revolution Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business by Jim Davis, Gloria J. Miller, and Allan Russell... 

Freeman, C., Louga, F. (2003). As time goes by. From the industrial revolutions to the information revolutions. Oxford/NewYork Oxford University Press. 

According to Auyang (2004), there are three overlapping phases in the history of modem engineering the Industrial Revolution, the second Industrial Revolution, and the Information Revolution. 

World War II served as a catalyst to many innovations that highlight the Information Revolution. It may be summarized by listing some of the major engineering accomplishments space travel, atomic power, electronic computers, and the advent of the microchip. In this last era, the capacity to create, store, and exchange data in its multiple forms has propelled industry, commerce, the production of services and products, and is present today in all aspects of human endeavor. 

Post-industrial Civilisation The second half of the twentieth century saw important changes which are considered by many as the beginning of a new, postindustrial civilisation, sometimes referred to as the information revolution. From the... 

Users sometimes fail to recognize the important distinction between classification and identification (Mayr, 1969) both are necessary but the latter is possible only to the extent that the former has been completed. Applied taxonomy can only exist in the presence of an accumulated body of fundamental taxonomic research (Figure 2.1). Current efforts to avoid the serious work of taxonomy can only succeed by lowering the quality of taxonomy itself (Will et al., 2005). Meanwhile, the information revolution is speeding virtually every step of taxonomic work, making such compromise of quality unnecessary. 

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